Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...running like a dry creek," warned the pro-Eisenhower Scripps-Howard newspapers one gloomy campaign day last August, but soon afterward came the flood tide that steadily carried Ike to victory in the election. In retrospect, the days of the dry creek defined Ike Eisenhower as a man who first sets his goals, then sits back disconcertingly until he has decided how to get there. Last week the Eisenhower Administration was in a similar dry-creek period, a painful interlude where the objectives were set but the Administration was getting nowhere. Items...
...Wiener was an austere and aloof yet somehow lovable paterfamilias. Papa was dissatisfied with ordinary schools and instructed Norbert personally until the boy went to high school. Papa, a good teacher was also an irascible man, and whenever Norbert stumbled, there would come streaming down upon him a flood of invective in German: "Fool! Donkey...
...attributed much of the increase to a flood of applications from Korean veterans. Seventy-five have already been admitted for next September...
...plane piloted by her husband Prince Bernhard, Queen Juliana of The Netherlands flew to England for a one-day visit to thank Britain for the recent flood-relief gifts. After lunch at Buckingham Palace with Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, Juliana went to her embassy, where she received members of the British Carpenters' Guild, who made her an honorary carpenter...
...projects became apparent. Dams operated by one administration instead of a number of private companies produce fifteen to twenty per cent more electricity, each. The citizens of the Northwest, eager for multi-purpose projects, realized that no private power company was going to operate its dams to aid irrigation, flood control, navigation, or recreation...